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In one memorable scene, Richie carries out a hit by employing just a strategic cough on a crowded disco dance floor, accompanied on the soundtrack by Blondie.

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They begin using cyanide spray as an undetectable murder method, freezing the bodies to dump later, mutilating them to fit the profile of an existing serial killer. Land and VromenвЂ™s script delves into intriguing details in the developments that follow, when Richie teams up with another free-agent killer, Dutch-Irish Robert Pronge (a stringy-haired, virtually unrecognizable Chris Evans), whose cover is running a Mr. This indirectly puts Richie in an awkward position that ends with him being shut out of the operation and unable to continue providing for his oblivious family, who think heвЂ™s in finance. When RoyвЂ™s filial-like minion Josh Rosenthal ( David Schwimmer) angers rival mob families by robbing and taking out drug couriers during an exchange, Roy comes under pressure from their mediator Leo Marks ( Robert Davi).

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Here and elsewhere, the work of editor Danny Rafic is hypnotic in weaving together the separate strands of RichieвЂ™s personal and professional life, underscoring the radical contrast between them. After testing his loyalty by having him dispatch a homeless guy, Roy hires Richie to watch his back, collect debts and вЂњsend messages.вЂќ As Richie and DeborahвЂ™s family grows with the birth of two daughters in the Jersey suburbs, his emotionless efficiency carrying out kills is expertly chronicled. Before long he gets on the personal payroll of steely unaffiliated gangster Roy Demeo ( Ray Liotta), who admires his ability to keep cool while staring down the barrel of a gun. Richie convinces Deborah that he works dubbing Disney films, but he actually bootlegs porn videos. A barroom interlude follows in which a pool player aggravates Richie, who calmly slits his throat in the back alley afterward, suggesting this is far from the first time he has killed.

She coaxes Richie through his conversational reticence to declare shyly, вЂњYouвЂ™re a prettier version of Natalie Wood.вЂќ The sweetness of that scene invests us instantly in the filmвЂ™s central relationship. The duality of Polish-American RichieвЂ™s existence is illustrated right off the bat during his first date, in Jersey City in 1964, with his future wife, virtuous Catholic girl Deborah Pellicotti ( Winona Ryder). PHOTO: вЂIcemanвЂ™ Poster Stars Michael Shannon as Menacing Killer

That source is reflected in a framing device in which the aged, bearded Kuklinski responds to questions in prison, with Shannon looking like a fine-grained Rembrandt drawing in the half-light. The screenplay, by Morgan Land and Vromen, was based on a fictionalized book by Anthony Bruno and on James ThebautвЂ™s 1992 HBO documentary, The Iceman Tapes: Conversations With a Killer. One of its most bracing characteristics, established from the outset, is the fluid juxtaposition of tenderness and violence. In tone, The Iceman perhaps most closely resembles the early work of James Gray in its neo-noir edginess and contagious fascination with the dourest and most dangerous of milieus. ThereвЂ™s considerable overlap here with crime sagas from Goodfellas to The Sopranos, and though his film is certainly not quite up there with the classics of Martin Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola, Vromen paints from his own palette.

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